n. I should say that he has no
prospect of a living."

"I can't conceive how a man can do such a wicked thing," said Harry,
moralizing, and forgetting for a moment his own sins. "Coming into a
house like this, and in such a position, and then undermining a girl's
affections, when he must know that it is quite out of the question that
he should marry her! I call it downright wicked. It is treachery of the
worst sort, and coming from a clergyman is, of course, the more to be
condemned. I shan't be slow to tell him my mind."

"You will gain nothing by quarrelling with him."

"But how can I help it, if I am to see him at all?"

"I mean that I would not be rough with him. The great thing is to make
him feel that he should go away as soon as possible, and renounce all
idea of seeing Fanny again. You see, your father will have no
conversation with him at all, and it is so disagreeable about the
services. They'll have to meet in the vestry-room on Sunday, and they
won't speak. Will not that be terrible? Anything will be better than
that he should remain here."

"And. what will my father do for a curate?"

"He can't do anything till he knows when Mr. Saul will go. He talks of
taking all the services himself."

"He couldn't do it, mother. He must not think of it. However, I'll see
Saul the first thing to-morrow."

The next day was Tuesday, and Harry proposed to leave the rectory at ten
o'clock for Mr. Saul's lodgings. Before he did so, he had a few words
with his father who professed even deeper animosity against Mr. Saul
than his son. "After that," he said, "I'll believe that a girl may fall
in love with any man! People say all manner of things about the folly of
girls; but nothing but this--nothing short of this--would have convinced
me that it was possible that Fanny should have been such a fool. An ape
of a fellow--not made like a man--with a thin hatchet face, and
unwholesome stubbly chin. Good heavens!"

"He has talked her into it."

"But he is such an ass. As far as I know him, he can't say Bo! to a
goose."

"There I think you are perhaps wrong."

"Upon my word I've never been able to get a word from him except about
the parish. He is the most uncompanionable fellow. There's Edward
Fielding is as active a clergyman as Saul; but Edward Fielding has
something to say for himself."

"Saul is a cleverer man than Edward is; but his cleverness is of a
different sort."

"It is of a sort that is very invisible to